Written question asked by Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench) on Monday, 9 February 2015, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Monday, 23 February 2015. It was answered by Earl Howe (Conservative) on Monday, 23 February 2015 on behalf of the Department of Health.
Mesothelioma
- Question
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To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 23 December 2014 (HL3669), what grant applications were made to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence over the last ten years for mesothelioma research, including in each case the specific types of grant application; which were successful and which unsuccessful; and what were the applying organisation and the individual values of each successful and unsuccessful grant application.
- Answer
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Grant applications for mesothelioma research are handled by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
Details of applications relating to mesothelioma submitted to research programmes managed by NIHR in the last eight years (2006-07 to 2013-14) are shown in the following tables.
Successful applications
Programme
Organisation
Amount awarded
Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation, research-led funding stream
University of Birmingham
Subject to contract
Health Technology Assessment
University of Bristol
£635,413
Research for Patient Benefit
North Bristol NHS Trust
£238,606
Research for Patient Benefit
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
£243,211
Unsuccessful applications
Programme
Amount requested
Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation, research-led funding stream
£1,819,907
Health Technology Assessment
£480,000
Health Technology Assessment
£1,200,000
Health Technology Assessment
£1,206,118
Research Fellowships
£791,206
Research Fellowships
£255,221
Research for Patient Benefit
£250,000
Research for Patient Benefit
£171,476
Research for Patient Benefit
£236,079
Research for Patient Benefit
£236,305
Research Professorships
£1,228,874
The Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation programme researcher-led funding stream is managed by NIHR and funded by the Medical Research Council.
Applications are submitted to NIHR in confidence and we are unable to disclose further details of unsuccessful applications.
The NIHR was established in April 2006. No applications relating to mesothelioma were submitted to national National Health Service research and development programmes in 2004-05 or 2005-06.
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- 2014-15
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